Tag: Nature
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Choose your own adventure.
Sunday mornings I start coffee. I top up the bird feeders, and jot down what visits. I journal. I listen to ragtime on the local radio station, figure out what needs done for the next twelve or sixteen hours. I try to carve out an hour or two to hop on here and see what…
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Last best streams- #1731.
The note pegged to the kiosk was too small for the whole story. Every every summer, every year, thousands of underpaid graduate students fan out across the country collecting data for their projects. If their work isn’t the backbone of modern conservation, it’s certainly one of the most important data streams available. Like most essential…
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The world needs little fish.
Take the menhaden, for example. Little, oily fish that fuel commercial and recreational fisheries up and down North America’s east coast. Redfish, bluefish, striped bass and more rely on menhaden as they move along inshore habitat. Menhaden are also coveted by a commercial fishing industry that renders them into fish oil for livestock feed and…
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The new spirit of fly fishing.
The sport of fly fishing is too old and too male and too white, and Outside magazine is coming to the rescue, highlighting three seasoned anglers as spokespeople for greater diversity and inclusion in the sport. It’s a noble cause, one I think all anglers should get behind. My hangup isn’t the anglers or the…
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The Colorado experience.
I was not prepared for this Colorado experience. I came through the southeast corner in the evening and passed a mile of concrete feed bunks with a cowboy on a horse in full regalia- the hat, the snap shirt, everything- trotting back and forth, waving an American flag over the heads of hundreds of gorging…
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Last Best Streams: # 127.
No rush. There’s an understated satisfaction in taking the morning to get gear squared away and double-checked. With a new car, with functioning air conditioning, there’s no need to get an early start, or drive through the night. That said I still drove with the window down, on the two-lane highways, putzing along behind hay…
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One bite at a time.
Man, is it tough taking decent photos while chainsawing, between the bar oil and sweat and grime, tucking the phone deep inside my Kevlar jacket so it isn’t dropped somewhere in the woods, pulled out into chilly, damp air to record progress. I apologize in advance. Back last fall, a tornado took out a big…
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Do anglers amount to a conservation challenge?
It’s a provocative thought, penned by Trout Unlimited’s Kirk Deeter in a recent article over at tu.org. Angling pressure was voted the #2 conservation concern of respondents to a poll run by Angling Trade magazine. Deeter’s solution tears at the numbers game- shift techniques, hone different skill sets. From the perspective of conservation, and for…
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Beer. Bonfire. Bowl of hoppin’ john.
The outside bend. 